VAMPIRE QUOTES V
quotations about vampires
The vampire does appear in literature right at the time the Reformation is gaining ascendancy, and he certainly does represent the old Catholic Europe. I'm sure my own vampires are seen as embodying the magic of my childhood Catholicism. They have the power of saints. They can work miracles and transcend time.
ANNE RICE
attributed, Anne Rice Reader
They hover alive in the space about me, vampires of thought, drinking the life of my soul. Shadows, flung into space by sharp corners, breaking off at unknown angles, falling on concrete floors, climbing black walls.
CHESTER HIMES
Cast the First Stone
What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Guilty Pleasures
Before people understood how certain diseases spread, they sometimes imagined vampires were behind the unseen forces slowly ravaging their communities.... Trying to kill vampires, or prevent them from feeding, was a way for people to feel as though they had some control over disease.
BECKY LITTLE
"The Bloody Truth About Vampires", National Geographic, October 26, 2016
I want a cheeseburger so badly, but I have to be a vampire in a few weeks.
KRISTEN STEWART
"Kristen Stewart on Breaking Dawn diet", The Examiner, October 22, 2010
If there's one thing real vampires seem to have in common, it is their reluctance to tell the world about who, and what, they are.
KIM WALL
"Interview with a real-life vampire: why drinking blood isn't like in Hollywood", The Guardian, August 15, 2015
I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you twenty barrels worth.
Good times are comin'.
NEIL YOUNG
"Vampire Blues"
Surveys conducted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance have found that there are at least five thousand people in the U.S. who identify as real vampires.... These communities have largely kept to themselves, knowing enough about public perception to not want to attract prying eyes.
YANAN WANG
"'Real' vampires exist and there are over 5,000 of them in the United States", National Post, October 26, 2016
I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity.
ELLEN SCHREIBER
Vampireville
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex -- sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive bloodsucking package.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
attributed, Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight
Give me the chance to dance romance
Don't run, I'm not the sun
So much at stake ... oh!
Bad choice of words
OUTKAST
"Dracula's Wedding"
Blood sucking creatures of the night
Nocturnal spectre hiding from the light
Cries screaming out every fright
Eagerly awaiting plight
Apparitions from the pits of Hell
Death plagues the streets in which they dwell
Demented lust, the secrets they must keep
Addicted to your blood
At dawn they sleep
SLAYER
"At Dawn They Sleep"
I think I should warn you all, when a vampire bites it, it's never a pretty sight. No two bloodsuckers go the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode, but all will try to take you with them.
EDGAR FROG
The Lost Boys
The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.
ANNE RICE
interview, The Daily Beast, November 23, 2011
Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.
ANNE RICE
Interview with the Vampire
There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die.
SHERYL LEE
Los Angeles Times, 1991
hey black dress moves in a blue movie graverobbers from outer space well, your pulmonary trembles in your outstretched arm tremble so wicked two inch nails micro waist with a pale white feline face inclination eyebrows to there mistress to the horror kid cemetary of the white love ghoul, well take off your shabby dress come and lay beside me come a little bit closer come a little bit closer come a little bit closer come a little bit closer to this vampira, vampira, vampira hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
MISFITS
"Vampira"
I've got a baby vampire in me,
nobody knows, nobody knows.
I saw you put it in me like a seed
that was as big as a stone.
And all I can do is watch it grow
and it comes and it goes.
It comes and it goes
and it's turning me into someone I don't know.
HELIUM
"Baby Vampire Made Me"
Vampires are purposely seductive -- they are feminine in their flirtatious, provocative behavior and yet aggressively masculine in satisfying their needs.
CAROLINE JOAN PICART & CECIL E. GREEK
Monsters in and Among Us
My vampires Lestat and Louis and Armand, they look more like angels than the feral Dracula. And they're not repulsive like Dracula, they're very seductive and beautiful. To me that added to the drama, to the tragic dilemma of the vampire, that immortality in the form of a vampire gave him so much power, and so many gifts, and so much charm and glamour.
ANNE RICE
interview, Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012